For a 6-year-old Australian startup that’s only been doing business in the U.S. for two years, Afterpay — with its buy now, pay later (BNPL) interest-free installment loans — has gone from relative obscurity to the front page of the financial section this holiday season....
Mastercard and Visa won’t be processing payments for Pornhub anymore, Reuters reported, with the two payments giants citing reports of the numerous videos posted on the site of sexual assault of minors. Mastercard said it would be permanently end the use of its cards on...
Trillions of dollars in healthcare spend can be sped up and streamlined with a pivot toward eChecks. In a podcast with PYMNTS, Todd Tracey, executive director at MPX, Deluxe Corporation said online platforms can bring providers and payers together in a way that improves transparency and...
Chargezoom, which works in managing customer payments on a single dashboard, has announced a new feature to let businesses instantly surcharge credit card transactions through an integration with Payroc‘s RewardPay, according to a press release. Surcharging is used more often lately in response to higher...
London FinTech Revolut has introduced Pockets, a new organization tool intended to help people organize their payments and better manage their spending. “We understand how difficult it is to stay on top of all your various bills and subscriptions,” Marsel Nikaj, head of savings at...
PayPal has introduced QR code payments in iZettle’s point-of-sale app to advance secure, contactless transactions in the U.K. amid COVID-19 restrictions. “Small businesses need access to commerce tools that help them sell securely and meet their customers wherever they are — in-store, online and in-between,”...
In payments, speed is everything. So, it’s no surprise that in a fireside chat with PYMNTS Karen Webster, Visa’s Alan Koenigsberg, global head of new payment flows at Visa Business Solutions; and Tim Summers, vice president of Visa Direct global segments and market development, said...
Spreedly announced Tuesday (Dec. 8) in a blog post that clients can now harness the company’s payments orchestration platform as a single way to handle their Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) requirements amid the approaching end-of-the-year deadline for 3D Secure 2.0 (3DS2) compliance. 3DS2 serves as...
If venture capitalists got word of a business that had been operating for 30 years, had customers in 118 countries and had a flagship annual event that attracted nearly 200,000 fans, they’d likely be lining up to throw money at the product. And in this...
